Which Met prima donna recently enraged her maestro when she forgot (or refused) to bring him out a curtain call at his final performance of the run? In recounting the story of this obvious snub, the "always friendly and downright jocular" conductor becomes so emotional that he begins to gesticulate as wildly as he does on the podium. The sharp sword of karmic justice is swift, though, because the diva missed her own curtain call only a few nights later!
22 November 2006
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Well, the Maestro must be James Levine. "Wildly gesticulating" and all that.
Levine was indeed brought out at the last Butterfly, and by cover Cynthia Lawrence, so it must be Fisch. And I think Jimmy keeps the gesticulating to a dull roar these days, no?
yeah - Levine barely moves on the podium these days, due to his physical problems and recovery from shoulder surgery.
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